Review Article

Nondestructive Testing and Health Monitoring Techniques for Structural Effective Prestress

Table 5

Research studies on structural prestress evaluation based on the EMI technique.

Publication yearResearchersStructural typeLaboratory or fieldSensor typeSensor positionResearch focusMeasuring error

2012Nguyen and Kim [42]PSC girderLaboratoryPZTAnchorage platePresenting a wireless EMI-based prestress monitoring systemWith a maximum error of 9.8%
2017Huynh and Kim [146]PSC girderLaboratoryPZTAnchorage plateProposing a phase-by-phase model updating algorithm to quantitatively identify the prestress loss
2017Huynh and Kim [147]PSC girderLaboratoryPZTAnchorage plateProposing an effective frequency shift-based algorithm to filter temperature effects
2018Huynh et al. [148]PSC girderLaboratoryPZTAnchorage plateProposing a PCA-based algorithm to filter temperature effects
2018Huynh and Kim [149]PSC girderLaboratoryPZTAnchorage plateProposing an RBFN-based algorithm to monitor prestress change under temperature variation
2019Ryu et al. [150]Steel strandLaboratoryPZTSurface of the strandProposing a novel wearable PZT interface to monitor prestress change
2020Dang et al. [151]Multiple steel strandsLaboratoryPZTAnchorage plateDetermining optimal locations of PZT sensors for prestress monitoring
2021Dang et al. [152]Multiple steel strandsLaboratoryPZTAnchorage plateDesigning a hoop-type PZT interface
2021Le et al. [153]PSC girderLaboratoryPZTSurface of the strandPresenting a smart strand prepared by embedding inexpensive and high-sensitivity EMI sensor